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I love cooking, learning about and eating food. I was very happy to discover the new house has a lovely lemon tree and a plant known as Monstera deliciosa. It’s a lovely looking plant that also yields quite an amazing fruit.  Wasn’t sure if it was edible at first, as it is quite a [...]
Shot of my new HQ. Loving the walls and downlighting. Yepp, that is my art.. gotta do some more.



P.S, posted this with Flock.. Nice browser… seemed to have issues posting though.. said it didn’t post, but did. Oh well, had to delete some dupes  But check it out! Chris Messina and crew are doing [...]
w00t! Yesterday, Girlfriend and I moved to an awesome new house in Carlton. We were rather sick of living in Pascoe Vale. Working from home, you need stuff to do within walking distance. Pascoe Vale is nice and all, but a deadland for cafés to sit and work at for a change of view.

Being within [...]
I’ve no idea if this is legit… came to me in the form of a ‘forward chain email’ from my Mum.

I have often wondered why people have not tried to do this before. Maybe its only just became legal (loophole?) or finically viable to do so.

Edit: This post has been getting a bunch of comments [...]
Try explaining something to your Mum. If she doesn’t understand – refine – simplify. If you do your job well, you too, will have a better understanding in the end.
First few days have been amazing!

Our flight went from Melbourne to Sydney, with an hour stop there, then onto LA where we had a 2 and a half hour stop. From LA we went to San Fran.

In the LA airport, The Hoff greeted us:


Took some photos in LA at the Airport – Note my Panic.com [...]

Man, yo bruthas a morphine head

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Wired has an article about some scientists, who finally proved that the human body can produce its own Morphine.

A quote:They found morphine in the limbic center, which is involved with emotions.”That puts this new signaling molecule in a very crucial part of the brain,” Stefano said. “If morphine’s there, it’s involved with subjective thinking.”

I ponder: [...]

from 1000 to 0

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Spurred on by the advice here, I have reduced my crazy inbox of over 1000 unsorted emails to 0.

This pdf was linked to in the comments on that post: http://www.goodexperience.com/reports/e-mail/email-report-goodexperience.pdf

also has good suggestions on managing email.

Remains to be seen if this will last but I remain hopefull and will try to be diciplined.

It took [...]

june-july update

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I got slack posting again.. here is time-lapse catch up:


After Rax I got a bit slack

Worked on music
Bought an MPC1000! w00t!
Developed a live ‘electronica’ set with songcarver
Played this set at the plug and play thursdays at ‘kent street cafe’ on smith street in Fitzroy.
friend dan had bday party – went to republika (smith st, fitzroy). [...]

Vegan Recipe: ‘atashooka’

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Here is a recipe I made based on a dish I ate at Barbukka and recipes I found online for ‘Shakshooka’. The dish I ate there and the recipes found are kinda different so the result is something different again but still yum!

Ingredients:

3 large potatoes. washed with skin on!
bottle of tomato pasta sauce [...]




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Cris Pearson from Melbourne, Australia.
Grew up in George Town, Tasmania.

CEO, co-founder, interaction + interface + graphic
+ web designer at plasq.

We are best known for Comic Life which was bundled with Millions of Apple Macs and now the much lauded, Skitch!.

Non plasq projects:
Loqalize - Open software translation web service
tequp - tech and art meetups
UI Review - Flickr group for peer UI reviews

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